A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Okes, Charles
OKES, K.W. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 14; h-p., 33.)
Charles Okes entered the Navy, 17 Oct. 1800 as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince George 98, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton in the Channel, where he served until April, 1802. In the following Aug. he joined the Ranger, Capt. Chas. Coote, lying at Deptford; and he was next, for nearly four years, employed in the Mediterranean and West Indies, off Cadiz, and in the Downs, as Midshipman, in the Seahorse 38, Capts. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Robt. Corbet, and John Stewart, and Defence 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins. He was then, 18 Feb. 1807, promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Indefatigable 46, Capts. John Tremayne Rodd, Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, and John Broughton, in which frigate he was for three years and a half chiefly stationed off Bordeaux and the north coast of Spain. He subsequently, from 3 Aug. 1810 until 25 Feb. 1811, had command of a gun-boat attached to the division under the present Sir Thos. Fellowes at the defence of Cadiz; where he was next for 15 months attached to the St. Albans 64, Capts. Edw. Bruce, Chas. Grant, and John Ferris Devonshire. His last appointment afloat was, 8 Aug. 1812, to the San Domingo 74, flag-ship in North America of Sir John Borlase Warren, with whom he continued until 3 June, 1814.
Lieut. Okes has for many years formed one of the Naval Knights of Windsor, of which respectable body he is now Governor.